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cycling

not been studying much for the past 3 weeks due to various reasons, but mostly because these two months feels like the last chance of actually enjoying my time here before the dreaded FINALS. which is in Feb next year after 1.5 months of study break + revision lectures.

so i visited a coffee shop with the excuse of studying there.

Kubrick @ Yau Ma Tei

It was a saturday, so it was pretty noisy and contrary to what I was told, there was no WiFi.

but i liked their concept of bookstore-cum-coffee shop. and they have a wide range of books, like literature from all over the world (Czech, Spanish, Greek lit?) and especially film books. There’s a broadway cinematheque just next door featuring many international films.

and seeing that the weather had been pretty good lately, i wanted to go out. pretty badly.

so last weekend we went cycling from Tai Wai to Tai Mei Tuk. the route was around 20km which took us ~3 hours to complete. the weather was extremely good (sunny + windy). the downside to this was that practically everyone was out; most of the time we were literally manoeuvring through the crowds of children + their parents + professional cyclists + random groups of friends hanging out together.

there was literally plenty to see.

we initially passed by Shing Mun River (城門河), while on the waterfront, there were some senior citizens singing, line dancing etc. the air was fresher and the skies were clearer. it was so different compared to the high paced, densely populated part of Hong Kong that I was used to living in.

but cycling could be pretty dangerous. i nearly got into an accident by coming to a sudden halt before turning into a particular resting spot. and the cyclist behind me was coming at full speed but thankfully he managed to brake in time. and one of our friends got into a cycling accident cause we were all going down too fast on a slope and she lost control of her bike which left her with abrasions on her chin, elbows and knees. 😦

Shing Mun River

some random resting spot

Plover Cove Reservoir (船灣淡水湖) at the end of the journey (you may return your bike somewhere before Tai Mei Tuk or even at your starting point if you don’t want to cycle so far.)

the sunset was breathtaking. it would be perfect without such a large & noisy crowd though. ><

and then on another random day when i was asking around for company for nighttime jogging that i ended up making a random hike up The Peak on the darkest route ever via Pok Fu Lam Reservoir. it was so dark that we managed to spot a couple of fireflies. quite an easy and short hike but exciting nevertheless cause of the dark lol!

will most probably be heading to Sunset Peak (大東山) this weekend with the same bunch of people! I seriously did not realise how beautiful Hong Kong is aside from its skyscrapers. well better late than never!

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Love

The love for equals is a human thing - of friend for friend, brother for brother. It is to love what is loving and lovely, the world smiles.

The love for the less fortunate is a beautiful thing - the love for those who suffer, for those who are poor, the sick, the failures, the unlovely. This is compassion, and it touches the heart of the world.

The love for the more fortunate is a rare thing - to love those who succeed where we fail, to rejoice without envy with those who rejoice, the love of the poor for the rich, of the black man for the white man. The world is always bewildered by its saints.

And then there is the love for the enemy - love for the one who does not love you but mocks, threatens, and inflicts pain. The tortured's love for the torturer. This is God's love. It conquers the world.

~ Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat

for those who wander

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,

From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin--his control
Stops with the shore;--upon the watery plain
The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain
A shadow of man’s ravage, save his own,
When for a moment, like a drop of rain,
He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan,
Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.

His steps are not upon thy paths,--thy fields
Are not a spoil for him,--thou dost arise
And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields
For earth’s destruction thou dost all despise,
Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies,
And send’st him, shivering in thy playful spray
And howling, to his gods, where haply lies
His petty hope in some near port or bay,
And dashest him again to earth: —there let him lay.
~ Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Not till we are completely lost or turned around... do we begin to find ourselves.
~ Henry David Thoreau